Transcript SharePoint Designer 2010

Erich Kohtz – Micron Technology, Inc.
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Site/Page/List Overviews
The Ribbon
Data Views
Workflows (High level)
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Works on SP 2010 sites only
Will run side-by-side with SPD 2007
MS Office 32-bit? Install 32-bit SPD 2010
Everything opens as a tab
Almost Everything must be saved
If you try to launch directly from the
browser…
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Create Forms
Custom Actions
Views
General Settings
Workflows
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Lesson 1: It’s in the Ribbon
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Home
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Insert
◦ It’s in the Ribbon
◦ It’s in the Ribbon…
◦ Text formatting
◦ Advanced Mode (new)
◦ Data Views & Forms
 After insert, List View Tools
◦ Controls + Data Source
◦ Links, Pictures Tables
◦ Web Parts
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View
◦ Page Views
◦ Workspace (Task Panes, Visual Aids)
◦ Ruler and Grid
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List View Tools (after insert; the ‘heavy
lifting’)
◦ Options
 Filter, Sort, Group
 Paging, Fields, Update (refresh)
 Inline Editing, Connections, Data
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List View Tools
◦ Design
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Show/Hide (sample data, totals)
View Style
Toolbar, Actions
Preview (Select preview; nice new option)
◦ Web Part (control all web part properties)
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Appearance (Title, Chrome, Width/Height, Connections)
Connections
Advanced
Save web part (DIRECT to site gallery!)
◦ Table
 All table formatting
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Data View Types
◦ Data View – End user can change!
◦ Related Items View – Based on lookup, easy way to
connect
◦ New Item Form
◦ Edit Item Form
◦ Display Item Form – More ‘traditional’ DVWP
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Item-level formatting – Date/Time Format???
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Inline editing
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Asynchronous update/refresh
◦ Manual
◦ Automatic Interval
◦ Could be resource-intensive
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Data view previews
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Web Part Pages now based on Wiki Pages
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Direct editing: It’s good and bad
◦ Easy, but restrictive
◦ Modifying code directly is difficult
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WPPs won’t accept Data Sources or Controls
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Don’t forget to publish!
Will not display in Workflows until ran
Can add to Custom Actions
Now Reusable
◦ Must be based on content types/site columns
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Bing: Create reusable workflows using
SharePoint Designer
◦ Video by Asif Rehmani
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Truly an “Administrator’s Interface”
Use instead of standard ‘end user’ methods